Category Archives: Computing & Internet

Apartment Finder

This morning while surfing the internet, I came across a website which enables browsers to easily search for apartments. I remember my friend, Jason, telling me that he plans to move to an apartment by the end of the year. Being single and having to travel so much in the course of work, it is not practical or cost effective to continue renting a house.

With Jason in mind, I checked out ApartmentFinder.com and I really like their advanced feature of searching for available apartments for rent based on an address. I could even get results based on apartments that are near schools or other amenities. This is all made possible with the map-based search engine. I don’t think I have seen such a feature before on other similar websites.

Apartment Finder turns the chore of searching for an apartment into something fun. This is because that I could view photos and floor plans of all the apartments that I have found through the site. If this is not enough, I could take a tour of the place if I am so inclined.

I think that my discovery of Apartment Finder will help Jason look for his dream apartment easily. I just hope that he won’t seek my help in packing and moving :-)

Google AdSense For Mobile

Logging into my Google AdSense account, I saw a new product called AdSense For Mobile. I was very excited because a friend of mine has a site which is doing very well with AdSense and I thought I’d let him know about this and thought that he has a lot of work ahead of him by making a mobile copy of his website.

However, to my dismay, upon checking the eligible countries, I note that Malaysia is left out. AGAIN! Why is Malaysia always left out of all the good things?? *sigh*

Google did include a note that they will be expanding Google AdSense for mobile to more countries in the near future but there is no set time frame. So, we will have to wait.

And by the way, will Google be giving us direct transfer anytime soon? We need to be shown some Google love over here!

Jobs In Manchester On Gumtree

My cousin, Jasmine, who has been living in London all these while, told me that she plans to move to Manchester to be with her boyfriend. She said that once she has found a job in Manchester, she would resign from her present company.

Looking for a job is really tiresome. I know, because I recently spent ten long months helping my friend look for a job. He did not have internet access, you see, so I decided to help him out. Although my cousin is a lot younger than my friend and has more energy in hunting for job, the process is still the same.

Not too long ago, I was introduced to a free jobs classified board called Gumtree. I found the name rather unique and it has stuck in my mind since then. I told my cousin to try her luck looking for Manchester jobs on Gumtree since the last time I was there, I saw a wide range of jobs on the site.

Jasmine told me that she has already heard of Gumtree and is in fact looking for jobs in Manchester through this site. She reminded me that Gumtree is a very popular online classifieds site in the United Kingdom. OOPS 😀

Major Irritation

As a very active blog for pay blogger, I have written posts for many sponsors. I write them good and I write them fast. However, what irritates me is that there will ALWAYS be someone who has no original idea of his own and would look for the sponsor’s URL and keywords through websites like Technorati or Google Blog Search.

Yes, it irritates the hell out of me because I don’t have the time to check if my content is being copied or not. I’ve got no time to keep checking through sites like CopyScape to see if my content has been stolen. And having discovered an intellectual thief before, I do not like the feeling and do not want to face the same problem again.

You may say that it is not a big deal and that in fact I am getting extra traffic, but heck, I am feeling as if this person is spying on me! I don’t know who this person is and I am so glad or I would be hounding his blog to check if my content has been copied over.

My point is, write your own posts and if you do read other people’s posts before writing your own, you would tend to consciously or unconsciously get a little word or phrase from here and there to make up your own seemingly “original” post.

Christmas Is Just Round The Corner

It is the time of the year again to look for corporate Christmas cards. My company has been exchanging cards during festive seasons yearly and each year, I am supposed to look for unique cards and yet keep the cost lower and lower. Can you imagine the challenge to keep the cost lower each year when everything has become more expensive? Doh… it’s not something I want to do but then an order is an order.

Earlier today, I came to Tiny Prints and I must say that these cards are refreshing and they are of excellent quality and yet cheap too. I personally have received many cards and what I do is that after the holiday season is over, send them to an orphanage so that the children can make handicrafts out of the cards. However, if I have a card like any of these from Tiny Prints, I would be hanging it on my wall through the year!

Tiny Prints has a very cute layout and totally uncluttered. It’s user-friendly and so easy to surf that it is a breeze to pick out the card that we like to order. Clicking on the image, we are brought to a full page of information for that particular card. There isn’t any need to seek assistance at all!

Blogger Play

I saw the announcement about the launch of Blogger Play on my Blogger blog upon signing in about a week ago. Yes, I know I am slacking here :-)

I thought to myself, who the hell has the time to waste to stare at the screen at all those images that Blogger bloggers upload? Can you imagine how pathetic it is to sit at the computer watching the world virtually go by?

Anyway, I decided to check it out to see what the fuss is all about. I must admit, despite thinking that I will never have the time to sit around watching the screen and reading which blogger is from where, I think I watched more than a hundred images before I snapped myself out of it. Boy, it sure is addictive.

I think that if someone spends the whole day watching Blogger Play, there must be something wrong with that person. In a way, watching the images go by, I feel like a voyeur. And it’s making me think three times each time I upload any image on my Blogger blogs now.

However, Blogger Play is great if you run out of topics to blog about.

Hassle-Free Cheap Brochure Printing

This morning, as I was surfing the internet, I remember that I was told to check out Cheap Brochure Printing. I like surfing the internet but not when it feels like working and I have a task to do but I was told to do it and I have to, I guess.

So I went around the internet looking for online printing companies which could offer us Brochure Printing at the best prices. I even called up a few friends and text them but none seem to be able to tell me. Of course, they have their favorite printers but those are not as cheap as we would like them to be. We don’t have a large budget and yet we would like quality print work. Oops that sure sounds familiar!

I finally came to know of Wholesale Printing Direct. To me, when I hear the word WHOLESALE, I have the impression that they are offering me something good but at a low price and in this case, I am happy to note that I am not disappointed. Of course, the final price will depend on what options we select for our brochures.

Wholesale Printing Direct is a full-fledged printing company and I think that we could combine our order of brochure printing with other card products because they are so cheap!